Summer Math Calendar Entering Fifth Grade Public Schools of Brookline

Summer Math Calendar Entering Fifth Grade Public Schools of Brookline Get ready to discover math all around you this summer! Just as students benefit...
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Summer Math Calendar Entering Fifth Grade Public Schools of Brookline

Get ready to discover math all around you this summer! Just as students benefit from reading throughout the summer, it would also benefit them to engage in math activities. Research shows that students better maintain and strengthen their math skills through regular and meaningful practices. The Math Specialists of Brookline have created this summer math calendar to provide your child and your family with a variety of math activities to explore this summer. Inside, you will find creative mathematics activities to try at home. The goal is for your child to have fun thinking and working collaboratively to communicate mathematical ideas. The activities reflect a range of difficulty with the intent that your child can choose the activities that are at a “just right” level. While working on these activities, ask your child how he found a solution or why she chose a particular strategy. This packet consists of 2 calendar pages (July and August) and an alternate summer math calendar that allows you to fill in your own activities. Each month’s activities are organized into 28 “math boxes.” You can choose which activities you and your child would like to complete on whichever day you want. We encourage your child to complete 20 boxes per month, coloring in each box as it is done. We recommend that you integrate an average of 15-20 minutes of math activities into your child’s day, by completing these activities and reviewing basic facts. Return the signed calendars to your child’s new teacher in September. We hope that you enjoy the activities, extend them, create new ones, and have fun! Public Schools of Brookline K-8 Mathematics Department Revised Spring 2016

Suggested Resources Ways to Practice Math Facts (using dice, index cards, deck of cards): Choose multiplication or division math activities on websites (see list of websites) Multiplication or division flashcards—identify a few facts to work on each time Multiplication or division triangle flashcards Flip 2 cards and multiply Practice skip counting by 3s, 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s, or 9s Games: Factors Game*

*Directions included

Fraction Dice*

Additional Games: Othello, Blink, 1-2-3 OY! Books:

One Grain of Rice Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar How Much is a Million? Lemonade for Sale G is for Googol If the World Were a Village

Demi Anno Mitsumasa David Schwartz Stuart Muprhy David Schwartz David J. Smith

Websites: http://illuminations.nctm.org (Concentration, Pan Balance-Shapes) http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/mathsadd.html http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/mathssub.html https://www.xtramath.org/ (personalized program for fact practice) http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/PlanetBlasterBasics/index.html (Planet Blaster) http://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcards.html (Flashcards) http://nlvm.usu.edu http://www.ixl.com/math/grades www.lemonadestandgame.com

Public Schools of Brookline

July

5th

Entering Fifth Grade Math Calendar Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Play Pan Balance-Shapes (Fixed Values): illuminations.nctm.org

Fill in the blanks to make the story true: Mr. Smith has ___sacks. In each sack, he has ___ boxes. In each box, he has ___ apples. He has 24 apples in all.

Practice your math facts.

Record the projected high temperatures for the next 5 days. What is the mean, median, mode and range of your data?

Read a math book.

Play the Factors game. (see directions)

How much must be added to the following #s to equal a sum of 100: 48 36 13 74 58 25 15 64 81

It costs $2.65 to ride the T. If you ride 2 times a day for the month of July, how much would you spend?

Play Fraction Dice. (see directions)

I am > 3,449 and I am < 3,502. I have a 1 in my ones place and a zero in my tens place. What number am I? Create your own number riddle.

Practice your math facts.

Begin with 35 and count by 7s to 77.

Play a game.

Imagine you are sharing one giant cookie among yourself and 5 friends. If you share it fairly, what fraction will each of you receive?

Write 4 number equations for each set of numbers: 8, 56, 7 6, 9, 54 4, 32, 8

Play the Factors game. (see directions)

Jose swam 3 laps each day and Micah swam four times as many laps as Jose each day. How many laps did Micah swim in 7 days?

Play a game.

Did you know? The frequency of a cricket chirps fluctuates with the temperature. If you count a cricket’s chirps for 15 seconds and add 37, you will have the approximate outdoor temperature in Fahrenheit.

15÷3 21÷3 27÷3 33÷3

18÷3 24÷3 30÷3 36÷3

Start with 3,542. Add 100 more. Subtract 50. Add 8. What’s your number? Is this a square number? Make your own number problem.

Begin with 36 and count by 6s to 66.

Make lists of fractions: ten that are less than ½, ten equal to ½, and ten greater than ½.

Practice your math facts.

Sophia runs twice as fast as her friend Mia. If Mia runs 3 mph, how long will it take Sophia to run 6 miles? 9 miles?

Read a math book.

Play Fraction Dice. (see directions)

Play the Lemonade Stand game: www.lemonadestandgame. com

Practice your math facts.

Put the following numbers in order from least to greatest: 1, 13/4, 11/2, 3/4, 21/4, 1/2, 11/4, 1/4, 21/2

Child’s Name:______________________________________________ Parent’s Signature: __________________________________ Created by the K-8 Math Department, Public Schools of Brookline, Revised Spring 2016

Public Schools of Brookline

August

5th

Entering Fifth Grade Math Calendar Sunday

Monday

What number am I? The digits in my number are 3, 8, 4, 1. I am odd. I have a 4 in my hundreds place. I am less than 2,000.

Practice your math facts.

George and his friends drank 3 quarts of water at the playground. How many more cups do they need to drink to make a gallon? How many ounces is that?

Play Fraction Dice. (see directions)

Play the Lemonade Stand game: www.lemonadestandgame. com

Write the following as decimals: 63/10, 1778/100, 621/2, 438/100, 13/4, 503/20

Determine the pattern. What comes next in each pattern?

Play Fraction Dice. (see directions)

Tuesday 54÷6 42÷6 30÷6 18÷6

48÷6 36÷6 24÷6 12÷6

Practice your math facts.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

In the 2012 Olympics, Usain Bolt ran the 100 meter dash in 9.63 seconds. The 1896 Olympic winner ran it in 12.0 seconds. How much faster was Usain Bolt’s time?

What number is 10 more than 4,492? What number is 300 more than 4,830? What number is 500 more than 4,654?

Play the Factors game. (see directions)

What’s the rule for my input/output machine?

Put these numbers in order from least to greatest:

Read a math book.

Build the Number: Put a 0 in the ones place. Put a 3 in the tens place. Put a 5 in the tenths place. Put a 2 in the hundreds place. Put a 1 in the hundredths place.

A marathon is 26.2 miles long. Johann stopped for a drink of water at the 17.3 mile mark. How many more miles must he run to finish the race?

/3, 0.5, 0.97, ¾, 0.01, 0.1, 2/5

1

1, 1, 2, 4, 7, ____ 4, 9, 16, 25, ____ Create your own patterns

Did you know? The Amazon rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles of land. Brazil has 60%, Peru has 13%, and Colombia has 10% while six other countries have very small parts of the rainforest within their borders.

Play a game.

The Olympic torch relay Practice your math facts. Kate’s garden is in the shape will last for 95 days and of a square with a perimeter visit 300 cities and towns of 32 feet. What is the in Brazil. On average, how area of her garden? many cities or towns will it pass through in a day?

Team scores on the balance Write a multiplication word A farm has cows and beam are added together and problem whose answer is ducks. There are 78 feet averaged. Kay’s score is 8.3. 354. Have someone and 27 heads. How Jill scored 7.9. Jenny scored solve it. many of each animal are 6.7. Tania’s score is 8.2. What there? How do you is the team score? know?

Practice your math facts.

Play the Factors game. (see directions)

Would you rather be given a one foot stack of nickels or a one foot line of quarters laid end to end? Estimate the total value of each.

Child’s Name:______________________________________________ Parent’s Signature: __________________________________ Created by the K-8 Math Department, Public Schools of Brookline, Revised Spring 2016

Fraction Dice Object: Players roll dice to determine the numerator and denominator of a fraction. Players compare the fractions. The player with the larger fraction gets a point for that round. The player who gets 10 points first is the winner. Number of Players: 2 – 4 Materials: Dice (or cards marked 1 – 6), paper and pencil for recording the fractions and recording the scores. Playing: 1. During a turn, each player rolls two dice (or one die two times) to create a fraction. The smaller number rolled must be the numerator, and the larger number is the denominator. Each player writes the fraction on a paper in front of them. 2. The players then compare their fractions to see whose is largest. The player with the largest fraction says, “Mine”. If more than one fraction are equal to each other, more than one player can say, “Mine”. The player(s) with the largest fraction gets a point for that round. 3. The other players check to make sure it is (they are) the biggest. If another player believes the fraction(s) is (are) not the largest, that player can challenge. With a challenge, if the one who said, “Mine” was incorrect, the challenging player gets the point for that turn and another point for correctly explaining why it was not the largest. If the one who said, “Mine” was correct, that player can get an extra point for explaining why is was the largest. 4. Play continues until one of the players has 10 points. Modifications: *Players can choose to have either number as the numerator or denominator (allowing for improper fractions).

*When playing with cards, make sure to have 4 of each number (1 – 6) and shuffle all the cards back in after each round. Players then pick two cards to use to make their fraction.

Alternate Summer Math Calendar Entering Grade _________ If you would prefer to substitute your own math activities for those suggested in the enclosed calendars, please document your created activities below. Remember: the goal is to complete 20 activities each month, so you may need to print this sheet twice!

Activity #

Date Completed

Description of Math Activity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Student’s Name:____________________________ Parent Signature:___________________________

Looking for apps for math practice? Here are a few free math apps to check out! (List begins with the earliest concepts)

Line ‘Em Up – order/compare numbers on a number line MathTappers: Find Sums MathTappers: Number Line Number Concentration (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Learning Center: Geoboard Deep Sea Duel (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) – thinking about operations Door24 – Math – thinking about operations LobsterDiver HD - fractions on a number line MathTappers: Multiples Pick-a-Path (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) – thinking about operations SolveMe Mobiles (EDC) – algebraic thinking MathTappers: Estimate Fractions

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